CMP PPG Newsletters

Winter / Spring 2016

Access to Appointments

There continues to be a very high demand for G.P. and Nurse Practitioner appointments, a dilemma that is not only acute in Chesterfield but across England generally. The reasons for this Nationally may be briefly summarised as follows:

The difficulties in recruiting G.P.s – due to this now being less of a chosen career path; a situation which is exacerbated by Government pressures to opening seven days a week plus extended weekday opening hours.

There are fewer G.P. s in training, but those that are face an additional year to their curriculum.